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Quality Requirements and the Requirements Quality: The indications from Requirements Smells in a Financial Institution Systems

Authors:

Angelica Toffano Seidel Calazans,

Roberto Ávila Paldês,

Edna Dias Canedo,

Eloisa Toffano Seidel Masson,

Fernando de Albuquerque Guimarães,

Kiane Mabel Fialho Rezende,

F��bio de Souza Gonçalves,

Ari Melo MarianoAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '19: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 472 - 480

https://doi.org/10.1145/3350768.3350782

Published: 23 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Systems quality requirements are defined by ISO/IEC 25000 series. In specifying these requirements, using Natural Language, it is possible that there are symptoms of low quality, Requirements Smells (RSs). The present work has the objective of confirming and analyzing the presence of Requirements Smells in specifications of quality requirements classified by ISO/IEC 25010. The specifications of 26 systems of a large public financial organization were analyzed. Content analysis and Nvivo software were used and 870 quality requirements were categorized and analyzed. As a result, it was verified that 44% of the analyzed requirements present Requirements Smells which signals the importance of the inspection of the requirements with this bias. It was also identified that the most representative RSs are related to Subjective Language (34.6%), Incomplete Reference (22%) and Non verifiable terms (16%). The RSs less found in the specifications are of the Superlative, Loopholes and Comparative categories.

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Index Terms

Quality Requirements and the Requirements Quality: The indications from Requirements Smells in a Financial Institution Systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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SBES '19: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/3350768

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Xu XDou YQian LZhang ZMa YTan Y(2023)A Requirement Quality Assessment Method Based on User StoriesElectronics10.3390/electronics1210215512:10(2155)Online publication date: 9-May-2023
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Berhanu FAlemneh E(2023)Classification and Prioritization of Requirements Smells Using Machine Learning Techniques2023 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA)10.1109/ICT4DA59526.2023.10302263(49-54)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT4DA59526.2023.10302263
Atoum IBaklizi MAlsmadi IOtoom AAlhersh TAbabneh JAlmalki JAlshahrani S(2021)Challenges of Software Requirements Quality Assurance and Validation: A Systematic Literature ReviewIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2021.31179899(137613-137634)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3117989

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